Exam 14: Stock Preparation

When ripping to width, place the edge that was jointed square against the rip fence and make the rip cut, using a ____ if necessary.

For all of the component parts of a piece of furniture to fit together well, the building blocks we start with must be milled flat and ____.

____ has very good bending properties and is also used for sporting equipment and bentwood furniture; its wood chips are often used in smoking meat

When crosscutting to length, square all the ends first.

At the beginning of the process of building a piece of furniture, we must make sure that the components that make up the final product are perfectly flat and square.

A rough layout marks out the pieces ____ they will be once they are machined.

____ normally has a straight grain, so it is often used in handles for striking tools, such as hammers, hatchets, and axes.

When doing a rough layout on stock before cutting the board to a rough length, ____ can be a helpful marking tool.

Since the ____ cuts from above, the work is fed into it with the face you flattened on the jointer down.

The stock we will use for a project must be the same lengths and widths as our finished components will be.